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Contacts Backup

Secure your most important data from a disaster and backup your contacts!

When to use

More often than necessary, we hear about smartphone synchronizing that ruins, rather than secures, your contacts file. By pre-emptively running a backup, you will be a step ahead of a potential loss of data.

Instructions to export and backup contacts

Click the File Ribbon.

Click Options.

Choose Advanced.

Locate the Export section.

Then click Export.

Choose Export to a File and click Next.

Choose a file type.

Comma Separated Values is compatible to Excel or Outlook.

Outlook Data File (.pst) is compatible to Outlook only.

Select the Folder to Export from your list.

Outlook auto-names the file Backup.pst

You should rename it to Contacts Backup.pst

You should click BROWSE and store this file somewhere safe on your computer or on a USB removable drive.

Click Finish.

Tips:

Make backup files individually for email, calendar, and contacts. Then, in case that you need to restore just contacts, you won’t overwrite months of new emails with old ones from a combined backup file.